A small but shameless plug for an event I helped organise. Next weekend London’s ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) is showing a four day retrospective of the best Swedish exploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s.

Sweden has historically been considered an international front-runner in regards to social reforms, health care, sexual equality, freedom of speech and actively working against bigotry and double standards. This has in many ways been reflected in Swedish cinema, most evident in the films from the sexual revolution of the late 60s and early 70s. These films had such an impact that many of us still associate Sweden with skinny dipping, promiscuity and voluptuous blondes, and this weekend of films won’t do much to change that perception.

As a bonus you will get to meet Christina Lindberg herself, the star of ‘Thriller – A Cruel Picture‘, which was Quentin Tarantino’s inspiration for ‘Kill Bill‘. It’s all a reminder of the days when there were still cinemas where an old rain coat was the obligatory dress code. And, yes, that is Stellan Skarsgård in the photo above, before he became big, went to Hollywood and appeared in blockbusters like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’.

Patrick was a Senior Analyst at Screen Digest, went on to launch the digital cinema operations of Unique and Deluxe Europe, then digitised Bollywood at Adlabs/RMW, and now writes, consults and appears on panels about cinema all over the world.

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